News
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Get in quick for financial top-up
By CASEY NEILL TIME is running out for Greater Dandenong businesses to access a financial boost. The City of Greater Dandenong’s Economic Development Unit has…
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Good time at Disneyland
DANDENONG’S Amelia Ameti will celebrate her 10th birthday at Disneyland – all thanks to a freezer. Her dad Leka bought the appliance from The Good…
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Vow to tackle high units
By CASEY NEILL DANDENONG residents last week slammed council inaction on restricting multi-storey units at a community forum. But City of Greater Dandenong councillor Matthew…
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Services step in to help out
DANDENONG support services stepped up to help one of their own at Christmas. Cornerstone Contact Centre lacked the resources to produce hampers to hand out…
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Saddle up for the new year
AUSTRALIA Day celebrations won’t be the only ones happening in Greater Dandenong on 26 January. Springvale will host free Lunar New Year activities from 9am…
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Unsung heroes of the past
When I traced the wonderful work the staff and swimming teachers have done and continue to do, teaching young people to swim at the Dandenong…
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Rangers watch the Fire burn
By JARROD POTTER A second half blitz from Dandenong shook off a determined Townsville – with the Rangers running out 20-point winners. The first half…
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Dandenong factory fire
By CASEY NEILL A FACTORY fire at a recycling business in Dandenong South is now under control. CFA crews remain at the site, in Thomas…
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World beater buries the competition
By CASEY NEILL SPRINGVALE Botanical Cemetery has been named the best in the world for 2013. It’s the first cemetery outside the USA to win…
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Cool way to beat the heat
COOL rooms will be up and running in Greater Dandenong tomorrow and Friday to help residents beat the heat. City of Greater Dandenong today (Wednesday)…
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Taxi trap
By NICOLE WILLIAMS THE closure of a Springvale taxi company has been blamed on cheap fares and rising petrol prices. But Minister for Roads and…
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Community ‘angel’
By CASEY NEILL “I CALL Sri Samy the angel of Friends of Refugees, not without justification.” Trevor Grant, the Springvale-based group’s spokesman, said he’d met…